Publications

CAPIVARA: Cost-efficient approach for improving multilingual CLIP performance on low-resource languages

Gabriel Oliveira dos Santos, Diego A. B. Moreira, Alef Iury Ferreira, Jhessica Silva, Luiz Pereira, Pedro Bueno, Thiago Sousa, Helena Maia, Nádia da Silva, Esther Colombini, Helio Pedrini, Sandra Avila

In: Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL) at EMNLP’23

“O dia em que descobri que colaborava para um projeto eugênico”: Sobre imponderáveis na pesquisa colaborativa

Sandra Avila, Marisol Marini

Platypus: The CASTAC Blog

Assessing the generalizability of deep neural networks-based models for black skin lesions

Luana Barros, Levy Chaves, Sandra Avila

In: Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP’23)

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The performance of transferability metrics does not translate to medical tasks

Levy Chaves, Alceu Bissoto, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer (DART) at MICCAI’23

Test-time selection for robust skin lesion analysis

Alceu Bissoto, Catarina Barata, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at MICCAI’23

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A survey on deep learning for skin lesion segmentation

Zahra Mirikharaji, Kumar Abhishek, Alceu Bissoto, Catarina Barata, Sandra Avila, Eduardo Valle, M Emre Celebi, Ghassan Hamarneh

Medical Image Analysis (MEDIA’2023)

The framing of time-dependent machine learning models improves risk estimation among young individuals with acute coronary syndromes

Luiz Sérgio Carvalho, Gustavo Alexim, Ana Claudia Nogueira, Marta Fernandez, Tito Rezende, Sandra Avila, Ricardo Reis, Alexandre Soares, Andrei Sposito

Scientific Reports (Sci Rep’2023)

Mitigando vieses no aprendizado de máquina: Uma análise sociotécnica

Lívia Ruback, Denise Carvalho, Sandra Avila

Revista Brasileira de Sistemas de Informação (Brazilian Journal of Information Systems) (iSys’2022)

Should I disclose my dataset? Caveats between reproducibility and individual data rights

Raysa M. Benatti, Camila M. L. Villarroel, Sandra Avila, Esther L. Colombini, Fabiana C. Severi

In: Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) at EMNLP’22

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Artifact-based domain generalization of skin lesion models

Alceu Bissoto, Catarina Barata, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at ECCV’22

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An evaluation of self-supervised pre-training for skin-lesion analysis

Levy Chaves, Alceu Bissoto, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at ECCV’22

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Seeing without looking: Analysis pipeline for child sexual abuse datasets

Camila Laranjeira, João Macedo, Sandra Avila, Jefersson A. dos Santos

In: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT’22)

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Rationale and design of the Brazilian diabetes study: A prospective cohort of type 2 diabetes

Joaquim Barreto, Beatriz Luchiari, Marcus Lima, Alessandra Oliveira, Sofia Vitte, Gabriela Machado, Jessica Cunha, Cynthia Borges, Daniel Munhoz, Vicente Fernandes, Sheila Medorima, Ikaro Breder, Marta Fernandez, Thiago Quinaglia, Rodrigo Oliveira, Fernando Chaves, Carlos Arieta, Gil G.-Júnior, Sandra Avila, Wilson Nadruz, Luiz Sergio Carvalho, Andrei Sposito

Current Medical Research and Opinion (CMRO’22)

Weakly supervised attention-based models using activation maps for citrus mite and insect pest classification

Edson Bollis, Helena Maia, Hélio Pedrini, Sandra Avila

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG’22)

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#PraCegoVer: A large dataset for image captioning in portuguese

Gabriel Oliveira dos Santos, Esther Luna Colombini, Sandra Avila

Data’22

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CIDEr-R: Robust consensus-based image description evaluation

Gabriel Oliveira dos Santos, Esther Luna Colombini, Sandra Avila

In: Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT) at EMNLP’21

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What should we pay attention to when classifying violent videos?

Marcos Vinícius Adão Teixeira, Sandra Avila

In: International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES’21)

Vieses no aprendizado de máquina e suas implicações sociais: Um estudo de caso no reconhecimento facial

Lívia Ruback, Sandra Avila, Lucia Cantero

In: Workshop sobre as Implicações da Computação na Sociedade at CSBC’21

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GAN-based data augmentation and anonymization for skin-lesion analysis: A critical review

Alceu Bissoto, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at CVPR’21

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Machine learning improves the identification of individuals with higher morbidity and avoidable health costs after acute coronary syndromes

Luiz Sérgio Fernandes de Carvalho, Silvio Gioppato, Marta Duran Fernandez, Bernardo Carvalho Trindade, José Carlos Quinaglia e Silva, Rebeca Gouget Sérgio Miranda, José Roberto Matos de Souza, Wilson Nadruz, Sandra Avila, Andrei Carvalho Sposito

Value in Health’20

Less is more: Sample selection and label conditioning improve skin lesion segmentation

Vinícius Ribeiro, Sandra Avila, Eduardo Valle

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at CVPR’20

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Debiasing skin lesion datasets and models? Not so fast

Alceu Bissoto, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at CVPR’20

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Weakly supervised learning guided by activation mapping applied to a novel citrus pest benchmark

Edson Bollis, Hélio Pedrini, Sandra Avila

In: Agriculture-Vision: Challenges & Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture at CVPR’20

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Data, depth, and design: Learning reliable models for skin lesion analysis

Eduardo Valle, Michel Fornaciali, Afonso Menegola, Julia Tavares, Flávia V. Bittencourt, Lin T. Li, Sandra Avila

Neurocomputing’20

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Grape detection, segmentation, and tracking using deep neural networks and three-dimensional association

Thiago T. Santos, Leonardo L. de Souza, Andreza A. dos Santos, Sandra Avila

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture’20

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Solo or ensemble? Choosing a CNN architecture for melanoma classification

Fábio Perez, Sandra Avila, Eduardo Valle

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at CVPR’19

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(De)Constructing bias on skin lesion datasets

Alceu Bissoto, Michel Fornaciali, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at CVPR’19

Eyes in the skies: A data-driven fusion approach to identifying drug crops from remote sensing images

Anselmo Ferreira, Siovani C. Felipussi, Ramon Pires, Sandra Avila, Geise Santos, Jorge Lambert, Jiwu Huang, Anderson Rocha

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS’19)

Enriching synthetic data with real noise using Neural Style Transfer

Naomi Takemoto, Lucas de M. Araújo, Tiago A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel, Sandra Avila, Edson Borin

In: International Congress of The Brazilian Geophysical Society (SBGf’19)

Automatic detection of diffraction-apex using fully convolutional networks

Thamiris Coelho, Lucas de M. Araújo, Tiago A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel, Sandra Avila, Edson Borin

In: International Congress of The Brazilian Geophysical Society (SBGf’19)

A data-driven approach to referable diabetic retinopathy detection

Ramon Pires, Sandra Avila, Jacques Wainer, Eduardo Valle, Michael D. Abramoff, Anderson Rocha

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine’19

Combating the Elsagate phenomenon: Deep learning architectures for disturbing cartoons

Akari Ishikawa, Edson Bollis, Sandra Avila

In: International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF’19)

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Toward subjective violence detection in videos

Bruno Peixoto, Lavi Bahram, João Paulo M. Pereira, Sandra Avila, Zanoni Dias, Anderson Rocha

In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’19)

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Skin lesion synthesis with generative adversarial networks

Alceu Bissoto, Fábio Perez, Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at MICCAI’18

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Data augmentation for skin lesion analysis

Fábio Perez, Cristina Vasconcelos, Sandra Avila, Eduardo Valle

In: ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop at MICCAI’18

A machine learning application based in random forest for integrating mass spectrometry-based metabolomic data: A simple screening method for patients with zika virus

Carlos Fernando O. Melo, Luiz C. Navarro, Diogo N. De Oliveira, [more 25 authors], Sandra Avila, Anderson Rocha, Rodrigo R. Catharino

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology’18

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Multimodal data fusion for sensitive scene localization

Daniel Moreira, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

Information Fusion’18

Leveraging deep neural networks to fight child pornography in the age of social media

Paulo Vitorino, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Perez, Anderson Rocha

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI’18)

Multimodal and real-time method for sensitive media content filtering

Sandra Avila, Daniel Moreira, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), US2017 0289624 A1

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Mid-level image representation for fruit fly identification (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Matheus Macedo, Sandra Avila, Roberto A. Zucchi, Fabio A. Faria

In: IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience’17)

RECOD Titans at ISIC Challenge 2017

Afonso Menegola, Julia Tavares, Michel Fornaciali, Lin Tzy Li, Sandra Avila, Eduardo Valle

In: ISIC 2017 — Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection @ IEEE ISBI’17

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Knowledge transfer for melanoma screening with deep learning

Afonso Menegola, Michel Fornaciali, Ramon Pires, Flávia V. Bittencourt, Sandra Avila, Eduardo Valle

In: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI’17)

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Video pornography detection through deep learning techniques and motion information

Mauricio Perez, Sandra Avila, Daniel Moreira, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

Neurocomputing’17

Temporal robust features for violence detection

Daniel Moreira, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

In: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV’17)

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Beyond lesion-based diabetic retinopathy: A direct approach for referral

Ramon Pires, Sandra Avila, Herbert Jelinek, Jacques Wainer, Eduardo Valle, Anderson Rocha

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI’17)

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Pornography classification: The hidden clues in video space-time

Daniel Moreira, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

Forensic Science International (FSI’16)

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A two-tier image representation approach to detecting child pornography

Paulo Vitorino, Sandra Avila, Anderson Rocha

In: Workshop de Visão Computacional (WVC’16)

A mid-level video representation based on binary descriptors: A case study for pornography detection

Carlos Caetano, Sandra Avila, William R. Schwartz, Silvio Guimarães, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

Neurocomputing’16

Deep neural networks under stress

Micael Carvalho, Matthieu Cord, Sandra Avila, Nicolas Thome, Eduardo Valle

In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’16)

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Método multimodal e em tempo real para a filtragem de conteúdo

Sandra Avila, Daniel Moreira, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI), Patent Number: BR1020160072654

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RECOD at MediaEval 2015: Affective impact of movies task

Daniel Moreira, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

In: Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2015 Workshop (MediaEval’15)

Ensino de programação para alunas de ensino médio: Relato de uma experiência

Nadja Ramos, Carmen Freitas, Sandra Avila, Paula Costa, Vanessa Testoni, Juliana Borin

In: Workshop sobre Educação em Informática (WEI), Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (CSBC’15)

RECOD at MediaEval 2014: Violent scenes detection task

Sandra Avila, Daniel Moreira, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Isabela Cota, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

In: Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2014 Workshop (MediaEval’14)

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Pornography detection using BossaNova video descriptor

Carlos Caetano, Sandra Avila, Silvio Guimarães, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’14)

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Statistical learning approach for robust melanoma screening

Michel Fornaciali, Sandra Avila, Micael Carvalho, Eduardo Valle

In: Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI’14)

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Automatic diabetic retinopathy detection using BossaNova representation

Ramon Pires, Sandra Avila, Herbert Jelinek, Jacques Wainer, Eduardo Valle, Anderson Rocha

In: International Conference of the IEEE Engeneering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’14)

The impact of visual attributes on online image diffusion

Luam Totti, Felipe Costa, Sandra Avila, Eduardo Valle, Wagner Meira, Virgilio Almeida

In: ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’14)

Representing local binary descriptors with BossaNova for visual recognition

Carlos Caetano, Sandra Avila, Silvio Guimarães, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC’14)

Image classification using object detectors

Thibaut Durand, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Sandra Avila

In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’13)

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Extended Bag-of-Words Formalism for Image Classification

Sandra Avila

Doctoral Thesis

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Pooling in image representation: The visual codeword point of view

Sandra Avila, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Eduardo Valle, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU’13)

Content-based filtering for video sharing social networks

Eduardo Valle, Sandra Avila, Fillipe Souza, Marcelo Coelho, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: Workshop on Computer Forensics (WFC), Brazilian Symposium on Information and Computer System Security (SBSeg’12)

BossaNova at ImageCLEF 2012 Flickr photo annotation task

Sandra Avila, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Eduardo Valle, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF’12)

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BOSSA: Extended BoW formalism for image classification

Sandra Avila, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Eduardo Valle, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’11)

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VSUMM: A mechanism designed to produce static video summaries and a novel evaluation method

Sandra Avila, Ana Lopes, Antonio Da Luz, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL’11)

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Nude detection in video using bag-of-visual-features

Ana Lopes, Sandra Avila, Anderson Peixoto, Rodrigo Oliveira, Marcelo Coelho, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI’09)

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A bag-of-features approach based on hue-SIFT descriptor for nude detection

Ana Lopes, Sandra Avila, Anderson Peixoto, Rodrigo Oliveira, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’09)

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Automatic frame extraction for improving content-based image retrieval of historical photographs

Ana Lopes, David Flam, Nátalia Batista, Sandra Avila, Jussara Almeida, Arnaldo de A. Araújo

In: Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (WebMedia’08)

Uma Abordagem Baseada em Características de Cor para a Elaboração Automática e Avaliação Subjetiva de Resumos Estáticos de Vídeos

Sandra Avila

Master Thesis

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VSUMM: An approach for automatic video summarization and quantitative evaluation

Sandra Avila, Antonio da Luz, Arnaldo de A. Araújo, Matthieu Cord

In: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI’08)

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Evaluating a zoning mechanism and class-modular architecture for handwritten characters recognition

Sandra Avila, Leonardo Matos, Cinthia Freitas, João Carvalho

In: Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP’07)

Avaliação de um Mecanismo de Zoneamento para Classificação de Imagens de Caracteres Manuscritos

Sandra Avila

Undergraduate Thesis